> > First of all let's decide what level of tools we need. All the hackers
> > outthere will be using good ol' "vi some.conf" method, but for new users
> > these tools and the ease of use might be a critical point in choosing
> > Gentoo.
>
> For me the tools should be helpfull in daytoday administration of gentoo. I
> don't think we should target newbees. When things are a bit more complicated
> it forces people to think first, and then press the button. This does not
> mean that things should be overcomplicated. It just means that the tool
> should not make decisions for you (like the rest of gentoo tries to avoid
> that). Not making decisions for the user means to me that a configuration
> tool should aim at supporting every configuration possible and especially
> should never ever preclude the use of alternative configuration tools (ever
> tried to configure cups with the redhat tool? they conveniently forgot the
> privileged port option, so you cannot use the tool at all, but they do put
> many warnings against not editing the file)
>
> Paul

well that would result in having two projects: gentoo-administration-
tools and gentoo-config-tools :))
--
Gytis Raciukaitis <raciuk@××××××××××.lt>